Discovering, Creating, Problem-Solving, or All Three?
Cort Andrews 4Ac
September 11, 2013
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Hi, my name is Cort. I like to discover lots of cool things. In my picture, I am discovering a new animal. To me, discovery means to find or learn something new. That is what discovery means to me.
Cooperating and Collaborating ...
Caine's Arcade Marble Maze Run
Creativity through Our Collaboration
The C.A.C. Team Banner
The C.A.C. Movie
The "T" in STEM Stands for Technology ...
The "Hour of Code" Initiative
The Engineering Design Process ...
PROBLEM:
How Do We Build a Catapult?
ASK:
What is Our Challenge?
The Angry Bird Competition is on … Angry Bird and Piggy Friends unite! To retrieve your stolen eggs, Angry Birds, your team will need to build a catapult with only the materials provided to you, as outlined in the following steps of this “Small Group Challenge: Marshmallow Catapults”: Challenge: Each group will design and build a marshmallow catapult using the following materials: 1 meter of masking tape; 2 plastic cups; 4 rubber bands; 2 plastic spoons; 2 paper clips; 15 cm x 15 cm piece of cardboard; large (standard size) and small (mini size) marshmallows to launch. Goal: Launch a marshmallow at least 5 meters (in the air) and not outside of a ½ meter width. What is a Catapult?
Cort Andrews 4Ac
Discovery Center / Library
Catapult Research
January 2014
A catapult is a thing that throws projectiles. A catapult gets its energy from pulling back a launcher or from pulling back a rope. Different materials that can be used to make our catapults could be tinfoil, wheels, yarn, tape, cardboard, spoon, rubber bands, and pencils.
IMAGINE:
What are Some Solutions?
What is the Best Possible Solution?
Why did Our Team Choose This Solution?
Cort Andrews 4Ac
Discovery Center / library
Catapult Reflection
February 2014
Our team first combined Anna and my ideas. Then when the cup started to break we moved on to Chris’s idea. That broke, too. We were all brainstorming, when Chris had another idea. He just made it up, and it was good.
PLAN:
What is a Diagram / Orthographic Design of Our Prototype?
CREATE:
What does Our Finished Construct Look Like?
IMPROVE:
What works, what doesn't work, and what could work better from Our Testing?
What are We going to do to address the Challenges We Faced with Our Construct?
Cort Andrews 4Ac
Discovery Center / library
Catapult Reflection
February 2014
If our idea right now does not work we can build on a better base for the catapult. If our catapult shooting rate goes down we can just reposition the rubber bands or maybe put some new tape on (but we cannot forget that we have a limited supply of tape). To prepare for competitions, we can get used to our catapult by taking turns testing it.
PRESENTATION:
How do We Catapult Ourselves into Problem Based Learning?
Discovering...
Cort Andrews 4Ac
September 11, 2013
Avatar Paragraph
Hi, my name is Cort. I like to discover lots of cool things. In my picture, I am discovering a new animal. To me, discovery means to find or learn something new. That is what discovery means to me.
Cooperating and Collaborating ...
Team Banner
The "T" in STEM Stands for Technology ...
The "Hour of Code" Initiative
The Engineering Design Process ...
PROBLEM:
How Do We Build a Catapult?
ASK:
What is Our Challenge?
The Angry Bird Competition is on … Angry Bird and Piggy Friends unite! To retrieve your stolen eggs, Angry Birds, your team will need to build a catapult with only the materials provided to you, as outlined in the following steps of this “Small Group Challenge: Marshmallow Catapults”:
Challenge: Each group will design and build a marshmallow catapult using the following materials: 1 meter of masking tape; 2 plastic cups; 4 rubber bands; 2 plastic spoons; 2 paper clips; 15 cm x 15 cm piece of cardboard; large (standard size) and small (mini size) marshmallows to launch.
Goal: Launch a marshmallow at least 5 meters (in the air) and not outside of a ½ meter width.
What is a Catapult?
Cort Andrews 4Ac
Discovery Center / Library
Catapult Research
January 2014
A catapult is a thing that throws projectiles. A catapult gets its energy from pulling back a launcher or from pulling back a rope. Different materials that can be used to make our catapults could be tinfoil, wheels, yarn, tape, cardboard, spoon, rubber bands, and pencils.
IMAGINE:
What are Some Solutions?
What is the Best Possible Solution?
Why did Our Team Choose This Solution?
Cort Andrews 4Ac
Discovery Center / library
Catapult Reflection
February 2014
Our team first combined Anna and my ideas. Then when the cup started to break we moved on to Chris’s idea. That broke, too. We were all brainstorming, when Chris had another idea. He just made it up, and it was good.
PLAN:
What is a Diagram / Orthographic Design of Our Prototype?
CREATE:
What does Our Finished Construct Look Like?
IMPROVE:
What works, what doesn't work, and what could work better from Our Testing?
What are We going to do to address the Challenges We Faced with Our Construct?
Cort Andrews 4Ac
Discovery Center / library
Catapult Reflection
February 2014
If our idea right now does not work we can build on a better base for the catapult. If our catapult shooting rate goes down we can just reposition the rubber bands or maybe put some new tape on (but we cannot forget that we have a limited supply of tape). To prepare for competitions, we can get used to our catapult by taking turns testing it.
PRESENTATION:
How do We Catapult Ourselves into Problem Based Learning?
Competition Day